Vending machine



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NET E JOSEPH VASS, OF SHARPSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

VENDING MACHINE.

vApplication filed May 18, 1921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, JOSEPH VAss, citizen of Hungary, residin at Sharpsville, in the county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vending Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to coin controlled vending machines, having particular reference to a machine designed more specially for vending stamps, although it .is to be understood that I do not limit myself to any particular use or application of the machine.

The invention has for an object to provide a novel coin controlled mechanism which will feed the stamps from a strip, and individually sever and discharge the same.

For further comprehension of the invention, and of the objects and advantages thereof, reference will be had to the following description and accompanying drawings,

and to the appended claim in which the various novel features of the invention are more particularly set forth.

Fig. 1 of the drawings is a front view of a coin controlled vending machine constructed according to the invention.

Fig. 2 is a side view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. w i

Fig. i is a front view with the door removed.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view of two of stamp feeding rolls.

Figs. 6, 7 and 8 are detail elevations of one of the rotary coin moving members, this member being adapted to make operative connection -with the stamp feeding means upon insertion of two coins.

Fig. 9 is a detail elevation of a coin moving member adapted to receive only one coin.

As here shown my improved vending machine comprises a box or casing 10 closed on all sides, the front wall thereof being in the form of a door 11 hinged on one side and adapted to be locked by any suitable lock.

Extending horizontally through the box 10, parallel to the door 11, is a shaft 12 locatedtoward the bottom thereof and suitably journaled in the side walls one end of this shaft projecting from the box and having a crank handle 13 fixed thereon.

Upon this shaft 12 are fixed a number of members presenting sockets into which the coins fall, the coins when in the sockets the Serial No. 270,550.

forming an operative connection between these members and the stamp feeding means, separate coin chutes '14, leading downwardly from the top of the box in alinement with the respective members.

These members are illustrated in detail in Figs. 6 to 9,.Figs. 6, 7 and 8 showing a member adapted to receivetwo coins, and Fig. 9 showing a member adapted to receive one coin. These members comprise hubs 15 and 5 respectively from which extend fingers 16, and 16. Cooperating with these fingers in formin sockets to receive the coins are jaws 17, 1 hinged at one end to suitable ears formed on the hubs 15 and 15 having their opposite ends extending in juxtaposition to the fingers 16, 16 springs 18, 18 retaining these jaws in normal position.

Upon the free ends of the jaws 17, 17 are lateral'lugs 19 adapted to engage fixed cam members to open the sockets at the proper time and discharge the coins. These cam members-are here in the formof lat.

eral lugs 20 projecting into the path of movement of the lugs 19 these lugs being carried on projections 21 from a bar '22 suitably supported in the end wall. of the box. Each of these socket members is of duplex formation, presenting diametrically opposed sockets. To retain the coins in the sockets the latter are grooved as at 23.

Loosely mounted on shaft 12 adjacent the respective socket members just described are a series of double arms 25 having on their opposite ends laterally projecting studs 26 which project across the edges of the socket members, these studs 26 being a sufficient distance from the shaft 12 to clear the socket members, but being adapted to be engaged when the proper coin or coins is inserted in the socket.

Fixed to these arms 25 concentrically thereof are gears 27 which form the initial the latter and the rollers 35 and out of the box. The roller 36 is formed with rows of projecting pins 36, while the roller 35v has grooves 35 to accoinn'iodate said pins. The door 11 of the box presents an inwardly recessed portion 39having horizontal slots -14) therein through which the stamps are ejected, a pair of guard lips ll being formed on the door at the top and bottom of this recess.

The stamps are individually severed from the'strips by means of a vertically recipro' eatingknife 4C21ocated adjacent the slots 40. This knife is fixed to the free ends of a pair of weighted parallel arms 43 pivoted at their oppositeends' as at 44 to standards 5-on-the beam 34. These arms 43 normally rest on the perimetersof ratchet wheels; 46 fixed coaxial-1y to the-gears 31 and rollers 38,- the arms each having a tooth 46' on its under side which engages the adjacent ratchet wheel, it being apparent that a rotary movement of the ratchet wheel will impart an oscillatory movement to the arms 43" and a consequent vertical reciprocating movement to the knife 42.

The coin chutes 14 may be extended upwardly through the top of the box 10 as shown, and suitable instructions may be placed on the box for the proper insertion of the coins as in Fig. 1. As previously stated these coin chutes aline with the respective socket members and one side there of is preferably extended around these members in the form of a coin guard let concentric to the shaft 12, the chutes being extended downwardly below these guards as at 145*. A coin receptacle may be located in the bottom ofthe box 10 to receive the coins as they fall from the chutes 14.

In the operation of'the device the'shaft 12 is adapted to make a half revolution every time a stamp is delivered from a strip, the trainof gears 27 to 31, the diameters of thefeed rollers35, 36 and 38, and the spac ing; of the teeth of the ratchet wheel 46 being so related that the strip will be fed forward the length of one stamp for each half revolution of the. said member, and the knife 42 will descend just as the half revolution is finished.

Upon the insertion of the proper coin or coins, the latter will fall in the sockets formed by fingers 16, or 16' and jaws 17, or 17, projecting radially across the lug 26 on adjacent arm 25. Shaft 12 is then rotated slightly more than a half turn by crank handle 13, and arm 25 is carried around with it. As arm 25 is completing its half revolution the lug 19 on arm 17 en gages the cam lug 20 moving the jaws 17 back and causing the socket to open as indicated in Fig. 6 and allowing the coin to drop.

During the revolution of arm 25 the cor-.

responding train of gears, feed rollers, and ratchet wheel are rotated and the stamp strip fed forward the proper distance, the knife 42 moving slowly upward as the strip is advanced.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to protect by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

In a coin controlled vending machine a coin chute, a rotary socket member in registry herewith said socket member comprising a hub element, a fixed fingerprojecting therefrom in a general radial direction, a movable jaw co-operating with said fixed finger,= and movable circumferentially of the socket member toward and away from the said fixed finger, and means whereby an article may be fed forward by said socket member when a coin is inserted therein, and an abutment stop adapted to engage said spring pressed jaw, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have afiix'ed my signature.

JOSEPH VASS. 

